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Pearl Buck — Part 1
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the war for them even when: Hitler has gone down and
Nazism is crushed And Japan retutned to her isles again.
The colored peoples /know that for them the war for freedom~~"-~
may have to go oft against the very white men at whose
side they are now fighting.
Is common sepse, if for no other reason, the white
peoples ought now to realize the truth, too—that war ey
not be ended fof them either, when_Nazism falls. They
ace the question: will their colored allies then become
‘heir enemies? That they may be very terrible enemies is
mo idle threat, If the colored peoples fight with reservations
in this present war against the Axis and if the white peoples
fight with no reservations, the colored peoples will have the
greater residue of strength. There /may be no interval
etween this war and the next ufiless we give proof now of
our sincerity.
End of Imperialism
We must realize, we citizens of the United States, and
this whether Britain realizes it or not, that a world based on
former principles of empire and imperial behavior is now
impossible. It cannot exist. We must make clear our
determination for real democracy for all peoples with mutual
responsibility demanded of all to fulfill its conditions. Nor
can we postpone such decision for democracy by saying,
“Let's win this war first.” We cannot even win this war
without convincing our colored allies—who are most of our”
SNpErior over colored peRpies Tee patience of colored
peoples is at an end. Everywhere among them there is the
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